[dhgamache]

Hey ya'll - I'm Dave the creator of Skeleton. Grateful to see it on HN. I wrote about why I created v2.0 in a weird format here: https://medium.com/@dhg/dear-skeleton-452f4bb07d69

I'm hoping the update really helps anyone who's been using Skeleton for a while or anyone trying to get into RWD.

Thanks :)

[e12e]

Very nice! If anyone else was unfamiliar with "rem"s (root em), this short article helps: http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/font-size-with-rem

It also expands on the comment in skeleton.css on how font-size: 62.5% skales 1 em to be 10 px (it would appear 16 px is the default).

[maradori]

Thank you for sharing such an informative article!

[oacgnol]

Thank you so much for the hard work. I've been using Skeleton for a personal project even though it hadn't been updated in over 2 years. As a (mostly) backend developer, Skeleton has proven to be the best possible starting point for me to learn on; there's nothing tricky about it.

This is a very nice early Christmas present!

[dhgamache]

Cheers <3

[mirthquakes]

Just wanted to say thanks for making this. Skeleton introduced me to the basics of responsive design and my company now uses it in several applications.

[dhgamache]

So glad to hear it man. That's why I built it :)

[larzang]

I started using Skeleton nearly 3 years ago and there are still bits of it lingering in my base shared scss files in one form or another.

Thanks for your hard work.

[dhgamache]

That's what it's for :)

[kmfrk]

This is fantastic, but there are two things I would love more emphasis on:

1) The explicit license.

2) Table of browser support (and fall-backs).

[dschep]

Agreed. FYI it's MIT https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton#license

[soperj]

Thanks Dave! I've been using a modified version of skeleton in all my projects for a long time. Glad to see it get a proper update :)

Also just an FYI noticed that your link to the noun project on the github page doesn't work properly.

[bbcbasic]

Thank you Dave.

I am excited to use this. I need a simple CSS (dare I say 'framework').

I will use this for a personal project app and post back the link when I am done.

[kaitai]

When I came back to web design after seven years' absence, Skeleton was the first framework I used. I was blown away by frameworks and responsive design -- these weren't really things in 2004 -- and I loved the lightweight, clean structure. (I have to admit I also really liked the serif font you initially used. Serifs, so underappreciated...) Thanks!

[heyts]

Hi Dave, great work on Skeleton. Was the original project a side-project or was it in use for projects at Twitter and / or Medium? Wondering about how it seems to be a sort of antithesis to Bootstrap (as in no preprocessor / small footprint / sane defaults).

[dhgamache]

Haha, just a side project. Weirdly bootstrap, foundation and skeleton all have similar roots together, but a story for another day. I made it cause it was what I wanted to start projects and seemed like there might be others :)

[dhgamache]

Oh and as for Twitter and Medium - nope! Just for personal stuff on the side, though it definitely worked its way into small parts of those properties.

[milesg]

Hi Dave, I love Skeleton, have been using it exclusively as a base for my web projects over the past 2 years and have it on around 20 client sites. Look forward to taking Skeleton 2.0 for a spin next week!

[bphogan]

Dave, I'm still in love with Skeleton, and 2.0 looks very nice. And it's great timing as I'm including it in the update to our web development recipes book.

Keep up the awesome work.

[marshallford]

Thanks for the 2.0 update Dave! I having been using Skeleton as a starting point for side-projects for a couple of years now. I really like how light it is compared to Bootstrap.

Happy Holidays!

[Pewqazz]

Thanks for continuing development on Skeleton! My current blog design is largely based on Skeleton 1.x, but it looks like I'll be updating it this week.

[dhgamache]

Rad man - So, it should ALMOST be a straight drag and drop replacement of the normalize/skeleton.css for the old grid/layout/reset.css, but if you were doing nested columns that's gonna get you. Please let know how it goes – [e-mail]

[ummjackson]

Dave, just wanted to say I love Skeleton, have used it for years and you rock. Thanks! :)